Books: The Friendly Arctic

BLACK SUNLIGHTEarl Rossman Oxford University Press ($1.75).
With so
many bold men preparing these spring days to explore by air over the
icy wastes of the Polar Sea, this journalistic account of life on the
upper fringes of Alaska makes a well-timed appearance. As Explorer
Vilhjalmur Stefansson agrees in the preface, it is a good kind of
introduction to "the friendly Arctic" for folk who have never been
there, since Author Rossman was a tenderfoot when he took his cinema
cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the...